Hambach Forest anti-open cast camp prepares for eviction (Germany)

The Ham­bach For­est has been occu­pied for half an year now. The for­est will get cleared to make way for the coal-open-cast-mine “Ham­bach­er Tage­bau”. This is togeth­er with two more open-cast-mines in the region and the pow­er plants that burns the coal, europes biggest pro­duc­er of CO2. They have already start­ed to cut the for­est, and the evic­tion of the camp can hap­pen any day. So read this anti-evic­tion-guide and see what you can do!

 

Before the evic­tion

The clear­ing of the Ham­bach­er For­est hast already start­ed. The for­est is evic­tion threat. If you have time, it makes sense to come to the for­est and sup­port the activists local­ly in the pro­tec­tion of the for­est
Think about whether you and your group can spend a cou­ple of days in the for­est to sup­port the Hambach180 cam­paign. If you know when you come write an email to  hambacherforst@riseup.net You find the the fly­er of the cam­paign here
Use the Ushahi­di-Apps (Android/iPhone) for our Stop-RWE-Crowdmap, to keep you up to date and report of sol­i­dar­i­ty actions or the evic­tion of the spot!
Send your mobile phone num­ber to  hambacherforst@riseup.net to get on the sms evic­tion list. In case of exi­c­tion you will be informed direct­ly.
Pre­pare before­hand when and where you want to do sol­idary actions. Seek out places of RWE in you region, as on this map, which is still upgrad­ed piece by piece. Make a research by your­self!
Draw a ban­ner before­hand. Here are some items you can use on the ban­ner: Ham­bach­er Forst bleibt
There is a design for fly­ers you can spread on a spon­ta­neous demon­stra­tion: Demo-Infofly­er_Rück­seite

Maybe you make it to orga­nize an infor­ma­tion ses­sion in the short term. There is an ODP pre­sen­ta­tion Ham­bach­er Forst bleibt.odp or as PDF: Ham­bach­er Forst bleibt.pdf Here are some videos
At the end of the week there is most like­ly print­ed stick­ers and posters. There is a b/w mas­ter copy: Ham­bach­er Forst bleibt
Dis­trib­ute stick­ers and posters in your city!

Sol­i­dar­i­ty actions

Fol­low­ing is a list of planned sol­i­dar­i­ty actions on Day X:

Berlin:

14 clock, ral­ly in front of the Inter­na­tion­al Trade Cen­tre Berlin (S+U Friedrich­straße)
19 clock, spon­ta­neous demon­stra­tion, meet­ing place in front of the church at Lausitzer Platz (U
Gör­l­itzer Bahn­hof)
Ham­burg:

17 clock, spon­ta­neous demon­stra­tion in front of Café Knall­hart on Uni­ver­si­ty Cam­pus (Van Melle Park 9)
Cologne:

14 clock, cen­tral of RWE Pow­er AG, Stüttgen­weg 2, 50935 Cologne
Essen:

18 clock, Front-exit Cen­tral sta­tion Essen

more to fol­low! Orga­nize your­selves and inform us about it:  info@ausgeco2hlt.de

Dur­ing the evic­tion

Think about whether you can come as fast as pos­si­ble in the for­est. Find out about the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion:  http://hambacherforst.blogsport.de,  https://stopprwe.crowdmap.com or phone: 01577–5440595
If you can‘t come into the for­est or the dis­tance is too large decen­tral­izes sol­i­dar­i­ty actions are impor­tant. Now it’s time for your pre­pared actions. Take pic­tures and write arti­cles on  http://de.indymedia.org,  http://linksunten.indymedia.org and  https://stopprwe.crowdmap.com , and send them to aus­ge­co2hlt-press coor­di­na­tion:  presse@ausgeco2hlt.de
If you use Twit­ter to report use the hash­tag #hfb
If you have rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion on the evic­tion dur­ing the evic­tion, such as Police clo­sures, spon­ta­neous demon­stra­tions etc, post them on  https://stopptrwe.crowdmap.com

After a sol­i­dar­i­ty action try as fast as pos­si­ble to come in the for­est or get informed what makes sense

In gen­er­al

In case you still get your pow­er from RWE or its sub­sidiaries: pow­er switch see i.e.  http://www.atomausstieg-selber-machen.de/
Orga­nize local events.
Estab­lish a local group which work on the top­ic coal, a decen­tral­ized, eco­log­i­cal and social ener­gy tran­si­tion or cli­mate jus­tice
Come to our meet­ings, see  http://ausgeco2hlt.de
Vis­it the Ham­bach­er Forst, i.e. with your polit­i­cal group
Orga­nize sol­i­dar­i­ty par­ties to raise mon­ey for anti-repres­sion costs. ausgeco2hlt will soon like­ly estab­lish a flow-bor­der legal sup­port fund for cli­mate jus­tice activists.
Donate to the for­est, the WAA or ausgeCO2hlt, or ask wealthy peo­ple you know.
Talk about the cam­paign, the for­rest, the move­ment etc. in your social media chan­nels and with your friends
Dis­trib­ute posters, stick­ers and more in your city. There are mas­ter copies: Ham­bach­er Forst bleibt
Link  http://hambacherforst.blogsport.de and  http://ausgeco2hlt.de